The Seed Is Mine

	First South African paperback edition, 1996
Author	Charles van Onselen
Publisher	David Philip
Publication date	1996
Awards	Alan Paton Award for Nonfiction (1997); Herskovits Prize (1997);
ISBN	080909603X

The Seed is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper 1894-1985 is a microhistorical study by Charles van Onselen. It is a profound social history of an African peasant sharecropper and his family in a racially divided South Africa. Van Onselen paints a stark picture of the relationship between landowner and farmer and its development in an increasingly racist society.

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